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the saviour of the country, they would all of them 

 have been drowned in blood." Credat Jud&us apella. 



Yours faithfully, 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



Monday, having been to another funeral.* 



A working man, a stranger, addressed me at Ben- 

 jamin Constant's funeral "N'est ce pas, mon bon 

 Monsieur, vous n'avez rien de si beau en Prusse, mais 

 ce sera bien plus beau, quand nous enterrerons M. de 

 La Fayette." 



CLXIV. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 29th July, 1854. 



Just as the virtuous Order of St. John, near the 

 Wilhelmsplatz, calls "Hurrah for chastity !"j" thus in 

 Spain the virtuous " insurrection" shouts " Viva el 

 pudorf" (Isabella) "Viva lamoralidad!" (the disinterested 

 Christina) ; but would you have thought it possible 

 (July, 1854!) that the Minister of Public Worship { 

 should likewise, although until now in vain, have 

 shouted " Viva el pudor /" He has, quite officiellement, 

 proposed to the King that the breechless groups on 

 the bridge should be removed by royal order, and shut 

 up in the arsenal, without any fear of the press ; as the 

 new Frankfurt Federal Slavery-of-the- Press Law is 



* Of Borsig, the manufacturer of locomotives ; a few days before, Mrs. 

 Amalia Beer was buried. Humboldt, in his eighty- sixth year, attended both 

 funerals. 



f The palace of Prince Charles of Prussia, Grand Master of the Order of 

 St. John, is situated on the Wilhelmsplatz. Thence the agitation against 

 the breechless group of statues on the palace bridge, is said to have pro- 

 ceeded. The Prince, it should be added, does not apparently enjoy among 

 his countrymen a ,<Trcat reputation for the exalted character of his virtue. Tu. 

 Raumer. 



